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...office a mile from a runway at London's Heathrow Airport, Philip Bowles grips an official-looking piece of paper. A pilot since he was 18 and now CEO of Airfreight Express (AFX), he is holding a copy of the most important document in aviation safety: a work card. These government-approved forms are used to document repair or maintenance of all aircraft. "Trust still exists in the aviation industry," explains Bowles, "because when these forms are completed, an airline can be 100% certain that the aircraft is airworthy...
...institute a two-drink maximum b) stop showing Miss Congeniality on every cross-country flight c) make flights actually leave the runway d) eliminate coach...
...next month, got to keep doing Saint Laurent haute couture. And this season, even while the fashion press was dressing down Julien Macdonald's attempts at reviving the classic haute couture style of Givenchy, it was lauding Saint Laurent for a collection which could have appeared on the runway at anytime in the last 25 years. A collection which opened with an orange blazer worn with a violet blouse tied like a scarf at the neck and a shapeless brown skirt. Particularly effusive were the grandes dames of English-language fashion writing. pure elegance by patron saint of paris fashion...
...design icons who, in different eras and on different continents, radically changed the way women dress: Rei Kawakubo, the Japanese woman who founded Comme des Garçons in 1969 and showed it in Paris in 1981, and the legendary Coco Chanel. Kawakubo will be staging five different runway shows around the city over the course of the festival's run. "Rei didn't want something static," said Van Saene, who curated this exhibition. Chanel, who died in 1971, didn't have a choice. She gets an exhibit in the former Royal Palace. It features not only revolving samples...
...managing director at Texas Pacific, have added all the right ingredients: a minimalist new store in Berlin and one on its way in Los Angeles (appositely opposite Gucci and Prada, which started this whole thing), editorial wooing and an edgy ad campaign. Oh, yes, and clothes. The Milan runway show in March drew accolades. Don't be surprised if your teenager starts haranguing you to go to "the Bally...